Indoor LBS Archive

Indoor mapping startup Micello has announced what it claims is the industry’s largest collection of indoor maps, with more than 15,000 venues worldwide including shopping malls, retail stores, airports, college campuses, schools, stadiums, hotels, casinos, museums, business campuses and hospitals. Micello’s maps now cover over 3.7 billion square

Everyone in the industry says the indoor location is the next big thing… Imagine location-based marketing inside shopping malls, supermarkets… imagine never searching for stuff in IKEA any more;), imagine always finding your way in an underground parking, airport, office building…  ast week Apple paid $20m for WiFiSlam

Is Apple planning to launch indoor navigation? It will most likely happen in a couple of months as the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has acquired WiFiSlam, an indoor GPS startup. WiFiSlam is Silicon Valley company founded by a few ex-Googlers a couple of years back. They created a technology

Games are changing! Locata is a very promising indoor and outdoor positioning system that uses ground-based sensors instead of satellites to project radio signals over a localised area. The signals coming from the location ground system have proved more than a million times stronger on arrival than

Google announced in a tweet today that its Indoor Maps are now available from the desktop version of Google Maps. It may not be quite as practical as the mobile version which is available for Android for a while already but those who looks to plan their Christmas shopping route might

When was the last time you had that frustrating experience in a large supermarket, where you’ve been walking around in circles trying to find a small item? Indoor positioning technologies are one of the most hot topics around Location-Based Services. Every university linked with any kind of

Redmond’s Venue Maps goes International and adds thousands of shopping malls all over the world. Whether you live in England or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps – helping you locate

In 2011 the end of November 2011 Google launched their latest mapping baby – Indoor Maps.  It was really cool project and it made all the competitors work harder.  At the beginning Google launched indoor service with 60 locations in US and 50 in Japan. But what